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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sara say that she and the other women hoped for?

2. How were the rabbis dressed in Chapter 27?

3. What did the Editor argue concentration camp denied prisoners?

4. Who did the resistance arrange for Hans to do?

5. What awoke the infirmary workers two weeks after the New Year?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Hans and what did the resistance arrange for him?

2. What did the editor say the Holocaust witnesses had trouble with?

3. Where did Sara return after the Germans surrendered?

4. What were concentration camp prisoners denied based on the afterword?

5. What did Dr. Koenig and the SS men want when they arrived at the infirmary?

6. Why did the women's digestive systems rebel against the food from the Red Cross?

7. What destination did Sara's transport reach in Chapter 37?

8. What did Sara and other survivors draw on according to the editor?

9. Who appeared before Sara when the women were singing one day?

10. What happened on January 18, 1945?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In October 1944, Sara met Mrs. Helena, another clerk in the infirmary after the hospital was moved to camp "C", formerly known as the gypsy camp. Students should analyze the story which Mrs. Helena told and conclude whether or not she had the right to tell the girls that they were about to be killed. Students should analyze whether this was a human right and whether telling them protects their human dignity and use the text to support their discussion.

Essay Topic 2

Sara reflected on the symbolism behind the term "Auschwitz," which came to represent devastation in the minds of those who lived and died at the concentration camp. Those who lived there were drawn into a criminal, amoral logic. Students should discuss why it represented devastation for those who lived and died at the camp, as well as discuss examples of this amoral logic and conclude whether it was amoral logic or just survival of the fittest. Students should use the text and secondary sources to support their discussion.

Essay Topic 3

In January 1945, those imprisoned at Auschwitz were forced on a death march to Ravensbruck, a concentration camp located in Eastern Germany. Those who could not keep up or were ill were shot. Examine the significance and purpose of the death march, using the text and secondary sources to support your discussion.

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